The argument in one line.
The fastest way to find a video idea is not inventing one from scratch — it's finding a title and thumbnail that already worked in a completely different niche and swapping in your own topic.
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READ IF YOU ARE…
- You run (or want to run) a YouTube channel and spend hours agonizing over titles and thumbnails before you ever hit record.
- You're running or considering a faceless channel and want evidence that repurposing proven formats can produce real ad revenue.
- You already use, or are curious about, an outlier-research tool and want a concrete workflow for turning outliers into your own video ideas.
SKIP IF…
- You make personality-driven, on-camera content where your individual story — not the packaging — is the draw.
- You're looking for scriptwriting, editing, or production advice — this covers idea and packaging discovery only.
The full version, fast.
The core method: use an outlier-research tool to find small-channel videos that get far more views than their subscriber count would predict, bookmark their titles and thumbnails into a permanent swipe file, then reuse that exact structure with only the niche-specific keyword swapped out. The video argues that chasing 100% original titles and thumbnails is the main reason new videos never get watched, and backs the method with numbers from the creator's own dormant faceless channels — one earned roughly $5,500 in ad revenue and 1.8 million views over a year, mostly off titles adapted from other creators' proven formats.
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00:00 – 00:25
01 · The hook: views without reinventing anything
Cold open stating the channel's 90-day growth (170K+ views) and framing the video as a shortcut, not a content lesson.
00:25 – 01:56
02 · What this channel actually is (and isn't)
Context on the creator's channel (Halo commentary + whiteboard YouTube-growth explainers) and a caveat that most viewers make entertainment content, not educational content — but the packaging lesson still applies.
01:56 – 03:32
03 · Case study: stealing a title from Mark Builds Brands
Walks through copying the structure of a high-performing title from an unrelated channel ('how to unfuck your mind so hard things become easy') and re-applying it to his own niche (school + YouTube).
03:32 – 04:53
04 · The dig-for-diamonds metaphor
Compares chasing full originality to digging randomly for treasure — most people who insist on unique titles never find an audience.
04:53 – 06:42
05 · The tool + the swipe-file system (sponsor: 1of10)
Introduces the sponsor research tool and a personal bookmark folder ('cool stuff') used as a permanent swipe file of titles and thumbnails, plus a plug for his Skool community's free trial.
06:42 – 09:38
06 · Live demo: outlier filters turn into instant video ideas
Sets filters (100–100K subscribers, 2x view multiplier, last 6 months) and finds a 'kill burnout forever' outlier, then a 'brain rot' channel, showing how titles get bookmarked and reworded for his own channel.
09:38 – 11:29
07 · Proof: faceless channels earning off reused ideas
Runs a dropshipping-niche search as a second example, then shows his own dormant channel's real numbers — 114K views in 28 days and $5,500/1.8M views over a year, most of it from one adapted-title video.
11:29 – 13:06
08 · Why 'be 100% original' is the actual mistake
Shows an AI-vs-AI video-game remake example, then states that trying to reinvent the wheel is why most new videos never get watched.
13:06 – 14:40
09 · Live mockup: rebuilding a proven thumbnail for a new niche
Picks a small-channel outlier ('retro games made life fun again', 8K subscribers) and sketches a rebuilt version ('PS3 gaming') by annotating a paused frame, timed to the PS3-is-now-retro angle.
14:40 – 16:23
10 · Recap + how to filter for small-channel outliers
Restates the repeatable filter (recent, small subscriber count, high view multiplier) as the signal a format is safe to copy, then signs off with a final plug for the sponsor tool.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- Searching for a proven title in another niche and swapping the keyword takes seconds; writing an original title from scratch can burn hours and still flop.
- A video that gets more views than its channel has subscribers is stronger evidence of a good title than raw view count alone.
- One dormant channel with no recent uploads still generated 114,000 views in 28 days and about $500 in a single month, purely from older videos.
- Over one year, a dormant channel earned roughly $5,500 in ad revenue and 1.8 million views, driven mostly by a single video whose title was adapted from another channel's format.
- The core swap is mechanical: keep a proven title's structure and thumbnail composition intact, and replace only the niche-specific keyword.
- Filtering an outlier tool to channels under roughly 30,000 subscribers with a 2x view multiplier over six months surfaces formats that work without an existing audience, not just formats popular channels can pull off.
- The same title structure ('X made life fun again,' 'kill burnout forever') shows up across unrelated niches — self-improvement and gaming — because the emotional hook, not the topic, is what's being reused.
- Reworking a proven concept ('6 months of retro gaming') into an adjacent idea ('PS3 gaming') keeps the emotional hook while changing only the specific subject.
- Insisting on complete originality in titles and thumbnails is framed as the single biggest reason new videos never get watched.
Stop inventing ideas — start mining proven ones.
PACKAGING RESEARCH
Views come less from original ideas than from titles and thumbnails already proven in someone else's niche, swapped one keyword at a time.
02What this channel actually is (and isn't)
- The channel that taught this method didn't grow through content originality — it grew mainly through how videos were packaged, which is why the lesson applies even to unrelated formats.
03Case study: stealing a title from Mark Builds Brands
- A high-performing title from an unrelated niche ('how to unfuck your mind so hard things become easy') was copied structurally and re-applied with a different subject, producing a video credited for growing the channel.
- The swap kept the title's shape and emotional promise intact and only changed the specific topic word.
04The dig-for-diamonds metaphor
- Treating every video as a blank page is compared to digging randomly for buried treasure — people who insist on 100% original ideas often surface nothing, and their videos go unwatched.
- The alternative: stop generating ideas from nothing, and instead search for ones already proven to work elsewhere.
05The tool + the swipe-file system
- A single research tool doubled as both a discovery engine and a permanent reference library, with winning titles bookmarked into a named folder for reuse.
- Maintaining an ongoing swipe file of titles and thumbnails means new video ideas can be generated in seconds instead of built from scratch each time.
06Live demo: outlier filters
- Filtering a video-research tool by channel size and a 2x view multiplier over six months surfaces formats proven to work even without a large existing audience.
- The same title structure recurs across unrelated channels because the emotional hook, not the specific topic, is what's being reused.
07Proof: faceless channels earning off reused ideas
- One dormant channel with no recent uploads still generated 114,000 views in 28 days and about $500 in a single month, purely from older videos.
- Over one year, that same channel earned roughly $5,500 in ad revenue and 1.8 million views, driven mostly by a single video whose title and thumbnail were adapted from another creator's format.
- The revenue example is offered as evidence that packaging discipline, not constant new-content output, can sustain a channel's numbers.
08Why '100% original' is the mistake
- Insisting on inventing brand-new topics and titles is named as the most common reason new videos get made but never watched.
09Live mockup: rebuilding a proven thumbnail
- A proven small-channel video was chosen specifically because it outperformed its subscriber count, not just because it had high raw views.
- The rebuild process is mechanical: keep the composition and phrase structure, and swap only the specific subject to fit a different, still-relevant angle.
10Recap + how to filter for small-channel outliers
- The repeatable filter described is: recent publication window, a low subscriber ceiling, and a view count many multiples higher than that subscriber count — the combination that signals a format is safe to copy into a new niche.
Terms worth knowing.
- Outlier score / 2x multiplier
- A ranking used by video-research tools to flag videos getting roughly double (or more) the views a channel's subscriber count would normally predict.
- Niche bending / title stealing
- Taking the exact structure of a proven, high-performing title or thumbnail from one niche and re-applying it to a different topic.
- Faceless channel
- A YouTube channel that doesn't feature the creator's face or personal brand, often built around a narrow topic and monetized mainly through ad revenue.
Things they pointed at.
03:05channelMark Builds Brands
12:44channelRetro Fish
Lines you could clip.
03:33
“What you're doing is pretty much digging for diamonds... by diamond, I mean just that title and thumbnail that would work for their niche.”
10:59
“In the past three hundred sixty five days, we've gained over 1,800,000 views and $5,500 in ad revenue alone from a couple videos.”
12:16
“Everyone's just trying to come up with the brand spanking new idea... and they're trying to reinvent the wheel.”
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00:00What is going on, gentlemen? It's been quite some time since I posted my last video, and then today, I'm going to show you exactly how to get views on YouTube the easy way.
00:12Let me preface this by saying a couple things. So number one is I've been growing this YouTube channel called Tragically Chill for the past, like, four or five months now. And in the past ninety days, I got a 170,000 plus views with just really simple content, quite literally.
00:30If we go to this channel, my videos are either me just playing Halo three and talking about business with school on YouTube, or it's just me making like whiteboard videos and going through examples of YouTube videos that do well and just teaching people how to grow educational YouTube channels. Now, know this channel isn't really the channel for growing an educational YouTube channel because for the most of you guys, you guys are probably just making like entertainment videos, etcetera.
00:58But what I'm about to teach you today has basically saved me like 99.9% of my time when it comes to coming up with videos in terms of titles and thumbnails. To give you some context, I don't spend a lot of time on titles and thumbnails.
01:13I just steal like an artist if I'm being 100% completely honest.
01:19And a lot of YouTubers, your favorite YouTubers, quite literally just take videos and then take that really specific title from one person, and then put that title into work with their own channel and they just switch the niche.
01:36There's a lot of terms for this. Some people call it niche bending. Some people call it title stealing.
01:40Some people call it straight up like fucking just being unoriginal. But in my opinion, the smart YouTubers do this, and I'm gonna teach you exactly how to in today's video. So let's start by saying this.
01:51I started this YouTube channel five months ago. It was my first ever video and essentially just blew it up.
01:58Now with the content side of things, it's just me talking about my expertise in the realm that I'm talking about, which is just growing school communities and growing YouTube channels. But when it comes to the titles and thumbnails, I did something really, really specific that not a lot of people like to do. And a lot of people in my school community winners club tend to try to be a 100% original and try to come up with their own thing.
02:22But in turn, when it comes to their titles and thumbnails, it just comes off as not clickable because they're not using what's being clicked on in the moment of time that they're making videos. Basically, I'm trying to say is that people are trying to do everything from scratch, when in reality you can just take from others and put their the titles that you find from other channels and take their titles and put them in your own niche.
02:46So for example, the way I grew this YouTube channel was looking at a very specific YouTuber called Mark Builds Brands. We go to his channel and we find any video. We'll go to his most popular videos.
02:58How to unfuck your mind so that hard things become easy. Now, with my video, I made this how to.
03:10Let me find it. I made a shit ton of videos. Ah, right here.
03:12How I unfucked my mind and make 9 k per month online with school plus YouTube as a low IQ 24 year old. All I did was just take this video right here, how to unfuck your mind so that hard things become easy, took it, grabbed the title, and then just added my niche, is school and YouTube. That's quite literally it.
03:33And to put it into perspective, what you're doing is pretty much . So if we just search up digging forever meme, most people, they just try to dig forever and they never reach that diamond.
03:46And by by diamond, I mean just that title and thumbnail that would work for their niche. And the people that dig forever are the ones that are trying to be a 100% unique and try to come up with their own titles, their own thumbnails, they edit their videos for hours, and then eventually no one ever watches their content as soon as it becomes uploaded.
04:03But what I am doing is quite literally just finding the diamonds by going on YouTube, finding other channels that have been doing really, really well, finding titles that I think are really cool, and finding thumbnails that I think are really cool, and just reverse engineering it for my own niche.
04:21So for example oh, my god. It was a big ass big ass voice crack. For example, we take this video right here, how I target my audience on YouTube and make blah blah blah blah online.
04:31All I did was just take inspiration from Mark Builds brands and his thumbnail style and then slapped it with my own face, slapped the school logo in there to make people know that this is a video about school on YouTube and put a little funny image in there because I thought it was funny. And I just took the title and then just reverse engineered it for my own niche.
04:49And this is quite literally all I do when it comes to making packaging, when it comes to YouTube, and that's how I grow.
04:57All I'm doing is just digging for these channels, finding random ass channels and then just taking their titles and using it for my own niche if it makes sense for my own niche. And I wanna talk about the easiest way to find channels like this because not a lot of people would necessarily talk about this. And even the case being that I am sponsored by one of 10 because they are sponsoring this video, I have been using one of 10 for a fucking long time.
05:26Quite literally years. And if you don't believe me, I'm gonna go to my bookmarks here, which by the way, you can just bookmark thumbnails and titles that you find on one of 10. I have this thing called cool stuff, and I literally just have video after video after video, title after title after title, thumbnail after thumbnail after thumbnail that I use for my own channels.
05:47Like this video for example, the art of editing. Very simple, clean, white thumbnail, laptop, some text, some arrow. Guess what I did?
05:57If we go to money maxing, we go to my channel, we go here, we scroll down for a second, then you find oh, I can't find it. Hold up. It's it's somewhere here.
06:07Oh, here it is. YouTube growth for idiots like me, period. I used the same exact thumbnail style.
06:11It got me 22,000 views and made me a bunch of sales on my school community, Winners Club, which by the way, we're doing a free trial, a free seven day video challenge for $9 a month. You can pretty much join and cancel as soon as you're done the seven day challenge if you so please.
06:27But that being said, I literally just find thumbnails and titles on one of 10 and then just reverse engineer it for my own niche. So I thought it would be really interesting for us to actually go through this and just show you exactly how I would do it.
06:45So number one thing is that when you go to the homepage, you'll just find a bunch of outliers.
06:51And what I like to do is use these settings right here. So two x multiplier, anywheres from 100 subscribers 100 k subscribers, sorry, and in the past six months ago. And then I just scroll until I find things that are cool.
07:05So number one thing that stands out to me is this video right here. I've quite literally just found this video and I would use this and I would take this and put it into my idea bank, which we can literally just bookmark here and put it into cool stuff because of a few reasons. Number one, I think the idea of this video is really cool.
07:23The video game mindset that ended my burnout forever. Number two, the thumbnail super simple and it conveys the idea of the video very, very good. Kill burnout forever and then there's like a video game character here, which is Link from Legend of Zelda.
07:38I am not a casual. I'm not a I'm not a casual.
07:41You know what I'm saying? So anyways, this video right here. This dude has 32,000 subscribers.
07:46This video has 69,000 views versus a 9.8 k view average video.
07:52So the way the reason why I really like this title is because it worked for a small channel and it got more views than subscribers. So I would literally just take this book market and use it forever and reverse engineer this for my own niche. Let's say for example, I make a video on Tragically Chill with this video for inspiration.
08:11What I would do is just the video game mindset that ended my productivity burnout forever or something along those lines. Obviously, a really bad example, but you get the point. All I'm doing is just taking ideas and then reverse engineering it for my own niche.
08:26And one thing I like to do is actually like to click on this guy's channel right here, and you can see the other videos that he's done. How to ruin video games for yourself. Bad gaming habits.
08:35Interesting. These games will heal your brain rot. Cure to brain rot.
08:39The mindset that made me stop living for others, live for you. This is like a self improvement kinda like productivity esque channel. How to reprogram your brain so scrolling feels stupidly boring.
08:49179,000 views. You I could literally take this.
08:53How to reprogram your brain so that online business feels stupidly boring and then just slap it on my YouTube channel. Instant video idea just by like a couple seconds of work. What I'm trying to get at here is that too many people like to overthink video ideas, titles, thumbnails, when all the inspiration in the world, exactly like this image here.
09:16There's like one where it's like a bunch of diamonds. Like this image right here. This is YouTube in general.
09:24And you don't have to just constantly like dig for gold by using your own brain to come up with titles when there are just millions of titles and thumbnails and video ideas on YouTube in general. So let's go here and let's just search up drop shipping.
09:42For example, we can find videos that have done really well. We can go to the filters here. We can go to last six months.
09:48We can go to under 30 k subscribers, two x multiplier, apply changes, and we can find things that have done really well for small channels.
09:57So let's find one here. This one right here. Start a clothing brand with no inventory step by step twenty twenty six.
10:03If you're in the three Oh shit. If you're in the three d printing niche, for example, like you have like a three d printing side hustle that makes you 2 k a month and you want to teach this on YouTube, you could literally just go start a three d printing side hustle with no insert thing that three d printers have here step by step twenty twenty six.
10:21Copy the exact same thumbnail, but just slap three d printing. It's this fucking simple and this is how I've been getting a shit ton of views from multiple different channels. If we go to here, this is my YouTube channel Tragically Joe.
10:34If we go here to Cool Indie Games, this is my YouTube channel Cool Indie Games, which by the way, it's still printing views from videos that I've made months and months and months ago. In the past twenty eight days, I've gotten a 114,000 views.
10:47My last video was made a hundred one days ago. I don't even upload on this channel anymore and it's still making me $500 a month. In the past three hundred sixty five days, we've gained over 1,800,000 views and $5,500 in ad revenue alone from a couple videos, but this one being the most popular video, which has 575,000 views, which quite literally the title is Clawd AI versus Gemini make COD zombies from scratch.
11:13Guess where I found this video, one of 10 and YouTube. So AI versus AI remake video games. Let's just type this in, see what happens.
11:22And then let's clear these filters here, like AI remake game. And we just play around with this, like, making COD COD zombies with AI.
11:33And as you can see, you can find videos similar to my video, weekly how ChadGPT versus Claude make Call of Duty from scratch. And we can see exactly what this guy is making. If we go here to his channel, we go to videos, he's got 32,000 subscribers.
11:46We go to public, then we go to popular. Five AIs work together to build an operating system. I made AI make AI LLM.
11:54Like, this could be a really cool idea for a ton of different things. ChatuchPadiv versus Gemini made Clash of Clans. As you can see, like, there's so many video ideas that you can just remake, remix, and make content around things that are already proven to work.
12:08And that's quite literally what everyone is missing when it comes to growing on YouTube. Everyone's just trying to come up with the brand spanking new idea, the brand new topic, and they're trying to reinvent the wheel.
12:21But here's the thing, 99.9% of the time when you try to and make content that is just like completely off the dome and random, is most of the time you're probably not gonna make content that people want to see.
12:36So the best thing that you can do for yourself is just find something that has worked in the past and find a new spin to put that topic on. So for example, this video right here by Retro Fish.
12:49This guy has 8,000 subscribers. This is a perfect YouTube channel to take inspiration from because he's been getting a shit ton of views, but he's a small channel.
13:00So what did he do differently? This one right here. Retro games made life fun again.
13:06Very, very simple content concept. Six months of retro gaming is just him with like an old TV, some old video games, and like some old like, old desk ish thing, and it's just like him looking at the camera. Six months of retro gaming.
13:19You could literally take this video, and let me screenshot this to show you. You can take this video here, and instead of retro games, which is very, very broad, which obviously worked really well for him, we can just replace retro with like PS two games made life fun again. PS three buying a PS three made life fun again.
13:39Because a PS three is an old, old, old console and it's pretty much considered retro at this point. So you can just take out PS or take out retro, add PS three, and then remake this thumbnail.
13:52But, it's just the p s three right here and a bunch of like p s three games here stacked up. And, maybe even the TV is on and you're playing like, I don't know, like GTA five on like an old ass compute old ass TV monitor because GTA six is coming out.
14:06So obviously, that would be really cool to see GTA five on the TV when GTA six is about to come out. It's like perfect timing. And you can make a video just talking about how six months of PS three gaming made your life fun again because it reset your dopamine receptors or whatever the case may be on what this guy talked about.
14:22So what I'm trying to say here is if you want to just make your life easier when it comes to YouTube, if you're struggling on YouTube, if you're just you don't know what content to make, don't try to reinvent the wheel. Just dig for gold. Find YouTube channels by just searching up on this little search bar.
14:40Find YouTube videos. Find YouTube channels that are very small like this that have been getting fucking hundreds of thousands of views. And then just find ways to remake their thumbnails and titles and video ideas and put a new spin on it.
14:52And again, I can't stress this enough. Even though I'm sponsored by one of 10, I'm not just saying this because they're paying me money. I'm saying this 1000% because one of 10 is like quite literally the best way to find these very small channels.
15:07Because you can just go to filter here, go to slash six months, and then go find channels with less than 8,000 subscribers with videos that have gotten freaking 40,000 views, with at most 8,000 subscribers.
15:20And you can find exactly who is making content, who is winning, and how you can remake those thumbnails and titles and ideas for your own channel, your own niche, your own thing.
15:33Like, one more thing I'll just say right here. The only Arabic resources video you need.
15:39You could replace this with quite literally everything. The only AI resources video you need. The only copywriting resources video you need.
15:48The only school resources video you need. The only YouTube growth resources video you need. There's so many ideas, and it's just about you finding them and you using a little bit of brainpower to remake these titles, remake these thumbnails, remake the ideas with your own spin.
16:05So, hopefully, this helped. Please check out one of 10. It is a fucking goaded software.
16:10I use it every day. And, yeah, have a great day. Peace.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The pitch is blunt: forget original ideas. The creator claims 170,000+ views in 90 days came not from clever content but from finding titles and thumbnails that already worked somewhere else and re-skinning them for his own niche.
Named ideas worth stealing.
03:32concept
Dig-for-diamonds title system
- Find outlier videos (2x+ views vs. subscriber count) via a research tool
- Bookmark titles + thumbnails you like into a swipe folder
- Reverse-engineer: keep the title/thumbnail structure, swap in your own niche keyword
- Publish and repeat rather than inventing an original concept from scratch
The process demonstrated for generating video ideas by adapting proven outliers instead of brainstorming from zero.
Steal forvideo idea generation / content calendars
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
05:22product
“I am sponsored by 1of10... please check out 1of10, it is a fucking goaded software, I use it every day.”
Sponsor is woven directly into the demo — the tool being pitched is the same tool being used on-screen to prove the method, and the pitch repeats again in the sign-off.
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PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
Visual structure at a glance.
